Very nice, Ray. Thanks (to you and the client) for sharing it.

For any who see this and are unfamiliar with APIs like Google's, you will need to obtain a key from them before you can run this code locally. Ray's online demo must be using his (or his client's) key.

To get a new key, and indeed to learn more about the API, note the links on the top left of the page Ray points to.

I was impressed to see that one gets 50,000 requests per day. That's very generous. I see also that if you use this for a non-public site, then you are expected to get an enterprise license. Just trying to foresee some questions that others might have (and indeed that I had) on seeing this nifty demo.

Great stuff as always, Ray.

John: Heh, I swear I'm not stealing. :)

Charlie: Dude - who needs docs? ;)

Got an error when entering my rural address. Apparently the code breaks when Google doesn't have responses available for all fields.

Entered: 33521 S. State Rt. F, Garden City, MO 64747

Error:

Element ADDRESSDETAILS.COUNTRY.ADMINISTRATIVEAREA.SUBADMINISTRATIVEAREA.LOCALITY.LOCALITYNAME.XMLTEXT is undefined in XMLRESULT

This code is really cool - thanks for creating it!

Ray, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing, and thank your client!

Ray,

Competition is a good thing, and collaboration is a good thing.
Since John has posted his project on RIAForge as well, would you consider becoming a contributor to his project? I think it would legitimize the need for a GoogleMaps cfcomponent and add a developer to your team.

Brian, as far as I can see the API does not allow for that.

forgot to enter the address sorry
rue des mésanges bleues, belgium

I'm not aware of being able to ask for clarification, but you can dumb down the geocode call until it works. Thats how we do it at work, and how cf_googlemap works.

You setup the the function to recursively call itself, and use a weaker attempt at an address each time. For example
1st call: Street1 Street2 City State Zip, State, Country
if fail
2nd call:Street1 City State Zip, State, Country
if fail
3rd call:Street1 City State Zip, Country
if fail:
4th call: Street1 City State, Country
if fail:
5th call: Street1 City State, Country
etc, etc, etc

Thats how it works in cf_googlemap. Ray, i fully encourage you to help out with cf_googlemap (if you have time, you are already carrying a lot of weight as it is)

Thanks for posting this CFC it's exactly what I need for a project. I setup a test and am getting an error. If you get a chance go to http://www.taylordc.com/test.cfm and enter the following address:

"27882 Via Del Agua, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677"

I get "Element ADDRESSDETAILS.COUNTRY.ADMINISTRATIVEAREA.SUBADMINISTRATIVEAREA.LOCALITY.LOCALITYNAME.XMLTEXT is undefined in XMLRESULT."

I'm running this on CF7 and not sure what would cause this since if I go to the demo at http://ray.camdenfamily.com/demos/googlegeocode/te... it works and if I go to http://maps.google.com it works as well.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,
Randy

Hi Ray,

Could you provide us with some code samples for this project that will work with GoDaddy hosting(createObject disabled)?

Thanks,

Greg

I just tried it with CF MX 6.1 but here it doesn't work. Any hint for me?

I just used your CFC, works great. I was using a Yahoo map API but that starting failing this week. Thanks! If I ever meet you I would like to buy you a beer.

Are we talking something like Chimay beer?

I want to do query on addresses and display on google earth on sepate winow when user click button show map. on click data should show on google earth.

I created kml file and had href link with kml file <a href=addresses.kml> sgoe map</a> When user clicks the link the kml displays on the page not the map.

Thanks

Mainly to support CF7. JSON wasn't native till CF8.

No problem. Glad it was useful!